Company: Terracotta, San Francisco, CA
Company Description: Terracotta is the company behind some of the most widely used software for application scalability, availability and performance. Our software is deployed in more than 500,000 installations, including by the majority of the Fortune 2000. Terracotta is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Software AG.
Nomination Category: Products & Product Management Awards Categories
Nomination Sub Category: New Product or Service of the Year - Software - Business or Competitive Intelligence Solution

Nomination Title: Terracotta BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius

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Organizations around the globe are under increasing pressure to implement new  strategies for gathering, managing, analyzing and acting on important data and insights. This need to take real-time action on Big Data intelligence is driving significant changes to the traditional enterprise architecture, and survival is only possible among the fastest.  Where data is stored and how it is analyzed and acted upon can make or break a company in a world where handling terabytes, and even petabytes, of data will be required.  In March 2013, Terracotta launched two revolutionary products that deliver on this promise and enable companies - for the first time -  to not only effectively handle all their Big Data, but to also unlock the power in that Big Data through real-time analysis.
    
Terracotta BigMemory 4.0:  With Terracotta BigMemory 4.0, enterprises can move up to hundreds of terabytes of high-value data from slow disk drives to machine memory for blazingly fast, predictable access. BigMemory 4.0 also delivers enterprise-grade levels of reliability and flexibility that were formerly available only in traditional, disk-based data management systems.  BigMemory 4.0 in-memory data management platform achieves up to 60% faster data access at terabyte scale and beyond.      
   
Terracotta BigMemory represents a radical new approach to data management and won the 2012 Big Data Award:
http://www.terracotta.org/news/press-releases/2012/2012-09-04-terracotta-bigmemory-wins-2012-big-data-technology-award .

BigMemory is recognized as one of the most innovative and cost-effective approaches that leading companies are taking to handle their Big Data Needs. “In-memory data management” is a disruptive trend that enables companies to take advantage of in-memory speed and simplify their architecture rather than keeping their data locked away in a data center silo. Terracotta BigMemory uses all the RAM in every server, making data instantly accessible and speeding up the businesses that rely on it.  
   
Terracotta In-Genius:  Terracotta In-Genius is the industry's first scalable in-memory intelligence platform for Big Data. Powered by Terracotta's BigMemory 4.0, Terracotta In-Genius promises to deliver real-time insights from any "Big Data" source to any type of device for immediate action. In-Genius combines in-memory data management, with event stream processing and messaging, to deliver real-time insights, and will process one million event transactions per second, identifying patterns and creating actions based on predicted behavior.  In addition, In-Genius features Oracle, SAP Hana and Hadoop connectivity.     
    
Enabled by In-Genius, the ability to act on insights derived from terabytes of data in real-time can transform entire industries such as:  
  
• Financial Services — Save billions annually on fraudulent transactions. Terracotta In-Genius will allow companies to stop such transactions using complex pattern detection before transaction authorization rather than after.
   
• Logistics Companies — Real-time supply management routings based not only on package location but also on historical data, traffic sensors, weather, calendar events and other patterns emerging from data. 
 
• Retail Stores — Instant and personalized recommendations not just on the web but at the point-of-sale across all stores, significantly enhancing revenues and personalizing the consumer's shopping experience for enhanced brand loyalty. 
 
The reality is that data is the new oil and a company that can’t handle and get value from Big Data will struggle to outperform competitors. Terracotta BigMemory 4.0 and In-Genius enable companies to win with real-time

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Robin Gilthorpe, CEO, Terracotta
 
Robin Gilthorpe is CEO of Terracotta Inc. and a member of the Group Executive Board of Terracotta’s parent company, Software AG. He has managed IT companies in all lifecycle phases.
 
Before joining Terracotta, Robin was senior vice president at TIBCO Software Inc., responsible for consulting, sales and after-sales support in the Americas. He also served in an advisory capacity on M&A strategy and implementation. Earlier in his career at TIBCO, he managed all business activities in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific, Latin America as well as the global financial services business.

Robin Gilthorpe graduated with Honors from Lancaster University (England) in Economics and Italian. He also studied Econometrics in Bologna, Italy.

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